Transferred His Infectious Energy To The Eager Audience - Live Review: Alfie Templeman @ Rescue Rooms impactnottingham.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from impactnottingham.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Reviews /
/
07 · 05 · 2021
Alfie Templeman s new project ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ is an eight track mini album jam-packed with energy.
Having already crafted four EPs to his name, this 18-year-old artist is unstoppable. Drawing inspiration from jazz greats John McLaughlin and Miles Davis to The Weeknd and Harry Styles, the album merges a variety of genres. Indie pop shines on the surface level but Templeman’s jazz and funk influences are utterly present too. This is demonstrated through an old romanticism which will make the fans swoon.
The album opens up with a bang, ‘Shady’ produced by Tom McFarland of Mercury Prize-shortlisted collective, Jungle, is bursting with killer guitar riffs and an insanely hooky chorus. To open an album with this much vigour, any listener will be assured that the rest of the seven tracks shall fulfil expectations. In the middle of the album is a lovelorn map of a broken heart in ‘Wait, I Lied’. Templeman laments: I kept us mov